Investigators search pig farm for missing Iowa college student; FBI gets new tip
Last Updated Jul 27, 2018 11:46 AM EDT
BROOKLYN, Iowa — Investigators say they have searched a pig farm and other places in east-central Iowa near where a University of Iowa student went missing, but have turned up no sign of her. CBS affiliate KCCI-TV reports that the pig farm is near Guernsey, about 15 minutes from 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts’ hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa.
Tibbetts was last seen the evening of July 18 jogging near the Brooklyn home of her boyfriend, where she was staying to watch his dogs while he was out of town. FBI officers, accompanied by search dogs, continued their search Thursday evening, acting off a new tip, KCCI reported.
A law enforcement source told CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton that drones are being employed to assist in the search. Numerous leads coming into investigators are being tracked down.
The FBI and state investigators have also been using digital forensic searches of her social media accounts, cellphone and fitness tracker in an effort to find her.
Tibbetts’ Fitbit could potentially give investigators a trove of data on the day she disappeared using GPS technology and other data like her heart rate, CBS News correspondent Adriana Diaz reported. Investigators have also issued warrants to social media companies for data that could help determine exactly where she went.
“You can actually overlay the location data with the real world to find out what exactly happened,” Thomas Yohannan, an expert on data recovery. “You are essentially trying to find a witness to the events that happened leading up to her missing person.”
Authorities say that as more time passes without finding her, they increasingly suspect she was abducted.
Authorities say Tibbetts’ boyfriend has been ruled out as a suspect.
Jogging is dangerous.
Hope someone is looking into this https:// www.thedailysheeple.com/in-just-the-last-two-weeks-dozens-of-children-in-iowa-have-vanished_072018 young University of Iowa student made headlines recently after she disappeared during an evening jog—but she is just one of the dozens of people who have been reported missing in Iowa in the last 10 days, and the overwhelming majority of the disappearances are children. Mollie Tibbetts, 20, has become the latest face of the missing person database this week after she was last seen going for a jog near her boyfriend’s house on the evening of July 18, and she seemingly vanished. Dozens of people of have pitched in to help search for the college student, and as she appeared to have no motive to flee, and her closest friends and family members have cooperated with police, it raises troubling questions about whether she was abducted. However, Tibbetts is not alone. According to the Missing Person database published by the Iowa Department of Public Safety, 48 people have gone missing in the last two weeks, and 34 of those people are children. On the same day that Tibbetts disappeared, two minors were also reported missing in Iowa—Mackenzie Lipp, 16; and David Harn, 16. In the next two days, another eight children were reported missing—Mackenzy York, 15; Malachi Vanderpool, 15; Nazario Campbell, 13; Joshua Wallace, 17; Nia Howe, 15; Madeline Francis, 15; Joesiah Armstrong, 14; and Yaritza Arita, 15. Thomas Bishop, 16, was reported missing on July 22, and Isabelle Buckman, 14, and Yvette Avila, 17, on July 23. The numbers then increased again July 24 when five children were reported missing—Summer Williams, 17; Asa Starr, 14; Belinda James, 15; Alberta Harlan, 16; and Maydelin Guerra-Albatado, 15. Tyron Woolery, 16; Serenity Wieman, 13; and Emagehn Champagne, 17, were all reported missing on July 24. Six people were reported missing in Iowa on July 26, and all of them were minors—Daishaney Phillips, 16; Anna Marousek, 17; Eric Magnussen, 14; and Mckenna Driver, 15.